Disable EPB?

[jthrelf]

This is my first vehicle with an electronic parking brake. Granted I won't have to do a brake job for about 4 years, I'm curious now.

Reading up in general about EPBs I found you need to disable it by fully retracting the actuator. This can be done by setting the car in a maintenance mode, using a scanner tool, or perhaps removing the EPB motor itself. I asked my sales guy who asked the service manager at my dealership and I was told there's no maintenance mode for the Stinger. I have a 2021 GT with Brembos btw.

So how does one disable the EPB actuator to change rear pads and rotors? Would love to not have to buy a scanner.

 

[Snowwhite]

I know what you're talking about- on our Mazda CX-9, you disconnect the harness for the little EPB motor and retract manually with a wrech. replace your pads, return the actuator to roughly where it was, and then reconnect the motor harness. all done.

The Kia manual has no mention of the EPB when doing the rear brake pads, so perhaps this is different in its engagment and doesn't need any messing with the EPB.

 

[BadTrainDriver]

The parking brake is a drum in hat design. To replace brake pads, you don't even have to remove the caliper, so nothing special is needed. The parking brake can be applied or disengage, as it's not connected to the caliper in any way.

To replace the rotor, all you have to do is disengage the parking brake. That retracts the brake shoes in drum in hat, and pull the rotor off.

Easy as it gets!

 

[BadTrainDriver]

I should add:
The parking brake is self calibrating, so once the rear rotor is reinstalled, simply activate the parking brake and it'll self adjust correctly.

 

[SmallAxe]

When I changed my rotors I lifted the car and removed the wheels and then found out I had put the parking brake on. Only way I could figure was to bring her back down put in drive then back to neutral and then just in park. I had no problems getting the rotors off after that. So as long as you don't use the EBP when you change your rotors it should be fine.

 

[jthrelf]

The parking brake is a drum in hat design. To replace brake pads, you don't even have to remove the caliper, so nothing special is needed. The parking brake can be applied or disengage, as it's not connected to the caliper in any way.

To replace the rotor, all you have to do is disengage the parking brake. That retracts the brake shoes in drum in hat, and pull the rotor off.

Easy as it gets!

Awesome! That does match up with what I heard from the service manager. Seems like other cars apply the caliper when activating the EPB, which makes disengagement required to be able to retract the caliper to accept a new, thick pad.

Now next question, anyone know the EPB design for a 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe? Haha. Hopefully the same drum design.